Nimet Habachy

Nimet Habachy hosts overnights at WQXR. In 1980 she became the host and programmer of WQXR’s New York at Night which was broadcast live from midnight till 5:30 am. She left the show in the spring of 2007 and returned part-time in 2010. For many years, Habachy was the host of the Metropolitan Opera broadcasts and has lectured regularly for the Metropolitan Opera and the Metropolitan Museum.

For seven years she worked at New York City Opera as the Assistant to the Company Manager and was a language coach for French and Italian. A native of Cairo, Habachy has traveled abroad extensively and has contributed to the Travel section of The New York Times. She spent summers working at the Spoleto Festival in Italy and at the National Library in Florence. She continues her career as a writer, interviewer and freelance lecturer in New York City.

Friday, February 01, 2013

The arrival of the West-Eastern Divan at Carnegie Hall is enormously exciting for many reasons. But the one that resonates most with me is that it is a wonderful tribute to a dear family friend, the late Edward Said, humanist literary critic, writer, educator and musician who envisioned this endeavor with his friend, conductor Daniel Barenboim, and saw the beginnings of its success.

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

It is impossible to believe that Frederica von Stade has truly left the opera stage after a 40-year career. Can it be possible that I first saw my then-new friend, Flicka in 1971 at the Metropolitan Opera? She was playing Violetta’s friend, Flora Bervoix in La Traviata. I saw her again a few days ago at the Houston Grand Opera, where she sang the role of the heartbroken mother of a condemned man in Jake Heggie and Terrence McNally’s searing and achingly painful opera, Dead Man Walking.

Thursday, February 03, 2011

As the world watches the events unfolding in Egypt, among those paying close attention is Halim El-Dabh, the Egyptian-American composer, performer and ethnomusicologist. WQXR's Nimet Habachy spoke with him.